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Welcome to March’s theme, Mystery. On our minds this time around: David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, and all the eeriness of the regular ol’ suburbs. I think the appearance of normalcy almost always ensures a bit of darkness underneath, so this month we’ll be looking at the kinds of mysteries that have been right in front of you all along. In case you just get SO SWEPT UP in the theme that you start walking around in a trench coat and spying on your neighbors, here’s a playlist I made of some menacing music to act as your soundtrack.

Also, we’re hosting a showcase with Urban Outfitters on Wednesday, March 13th, in Austin, Texas. Feast your eyes on this promising agenda!

I’m sad to say I can’t make it, but a number of our other staffers will be there, plus PIZZA, so like, what more could one want?

And finally, it’s not too late to submit something for this month, but April’s theme is Age of Innocence in case you wanna start on that. In a nutshell, it’ll be about pre- and post-loss of innocence, whatever that may mean, and old British people.

Thank you, as always, for being here, and may you power through this end-of-winter slump with all the episodes of Scandal and midnight snacks in the world.

In this case, it’s because people and bands will be in Austin for SXSW. For the road trip, we took a survey on the site to see where most of our U.S. readers lived and which of those cities were close to each other. For the Yearbook events, we did the 4 North American cities with the most readership.

Looking forward to this month as you’ve mentioned two of my favourite directors! And what’s even more weird is the fact that I just finished watching Mulholland Drive…(a must see!)
Great playlist. I also love Lana Del Rey’s cover of Blue Velvet.
And this showcase makes it more annoying that I live in the UK.

Ugh why do i have to live so far from all the rookie meetups :(
And you’re having freaking ICONA POP there! I saw them live once (as an opening act for marina and the diamonds) and they were just AMAZING
THis month’s theme sounds really cool though! im looking forward to seeing lots more great material like the rad playlist above :)

YES I am so excited for this theme, I’m hoping for Twin Peaks, and murder mysteries, and foggy cemeteries. I love cemeteries and general eerie-ness. Basically if I was turned into a piece of jewelry I’d be one of those Victorian mourning pendants with the dead person’s braided hair inside of it.

oh wait, i wouldn’t even have to skip bc we’ll be on spring break, but my parents want to go to San Antonio then and i’m currently in the process of trying to persuade them to let me go!! what part of “this is a once in a lifetime thing” do they not understand? lolol. love the theme, btw :)

love_soup I am from Manhattan, New York City. I could use some hobby friends because no one I know really shares my interests and they don’t read Rookie. Just going with Tavi’s idea of community! I am a 25 year old woman though….

I am SO excited! I knew there would be David Lynch this month.
I wanted to write something about how much I love his work and send it to Rookie but … then February was over and I did not have time for that :(
Because, well I am crazy obsessed with him…

Now, sorry, I will go back to think about Twin Peaks… (that’s what I do the whole day)

I know that next month is ages away, but… OMG, NEXT MONTHS THEME IS ABOUT INNOCENCE AND THE LOSS OF INNOCENCE? You totally have to include something about William Blake- we’re studying him in English and I have to write an essay about his poetry and, like, he explores the marriage of opposites in his poetry- such as: innocence and experience!! Everyone has to look up Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow. It’s so interesting people!!

I also love this months theme- I hope that there’ll be something about Murder Mysteries (and, like, omg you guys, you all need to search up Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries- it’s this awesome australian tv show set in 1920’s Melbourne which is all about the hounarable Miss Phryne Fisher who is a private detective who investigates all sorts of murders and often gets in the way of Detective Inspector Robinson’s plans. And Miss Fisher always solves the case and she’s a genius and there is totally awesome fashion in the show and superb acting… And it’s AMAZING, and you guys need to check out more Australian tv, it is original and with great actors and …yea. And they’re currently filming season 2, right now, as we speak)

I was looking forward to this month because I just discovered my new interest in the mystery genre. I was watching all of these different cop shows and I didn’t realize why I liked them so much. It’s nice to have a name for what I like now. Can’t wait until they name movies and tv shows related to mystery. VERONICA MARS! PSYCH! lol. THE MOVIE “BRICK” with Joseph Gordon-Levitt! Can’t wait. :D